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BUTTER WORKER. I

No. 246,239; Pat exited Aug. 23,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT rrricn'.

ELVEARO STOUT, OF OTTUMWA, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHN R. SHEPHERD, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,239, dated August 23, 1881.

Application filed June 7, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELVEARO STOUT, of Ottumwa, in the countyof Wapello and State of Iowa, haveinventedanew and useful Improvement in Butter-VVorkers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved butter-worker, partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a plan view; and Fig. 3is a vertical transverse section on line a; m, Fig. 2.

Myinvention relates toimprovements in that class of butter-workers in which a frame carrying a roller is reciprocated in a box having slots in its sides, the bottom faces of the slots serving as bearings for a transverse rod in the roller-frame as it is moved back and forth in the box; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the various parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, a a represent the sides of a box or receptacle, A, for the 2 5 butter to be worked, each of which is provided with a horizontal slot, I), the slots 1) lying opposite each other, and at the same distance from the bottom of the box. The lower horizontal faces of the slots b are each provided 0 with a groove, 0, for the reception of tenons d in the lower ends of the blocks 6, adapted to reciprocate in the slots 1).

h h represent the longitudinal arms of a rectangular frame, 1', provided with downwardly 3 5 projecting pieces 9 g, having journal-bearings for a roller, is, and provided with a transverse rod, 1, at its outer end, which serves as a bandle to reciprocate the frame a and roller 7c in the box A.

m represents a transverse double-crank rod, its ends passing through holes near the inner ends of the longitudinal arms h 70 of the frame t, and thence to the blocks e, to which they are secured. By constructing the back-stick or 4 5 transverse rod min the form of a double crank it is made to project up above the frame i, so that it will not interfere or come in contact with the butter being worked in the box in the reciprocations of the frame, which would occur Thimbles or ferrules are placed in the jour- 5 5 nal-bearings, near the ends of the arms h, in which the handle I is journaled, to prevent wear.

The journals n of the roller 70 are each pro vided with a central groove, 0, extending entirely around each journal and engaging with a pin, 1), passing through one side of thejournal-bearing, to hold the journals in place.

In'order to readily remove the rectangular frame t'and roller 70 for cleansing them and the butter-receptacle, I have provided the following devices: At one end of the ends of the grooves in the lower faces of the slots Z) enlarged openings q q are made in each side a of the box, in which blocks rare inserted, in the operation of the machine, to limit the play of the blocks 6 and hold them in the grooves. These blocks are held in place in the operation of the machine by the legs 8 s, each pivoted to a side, a, of the box A, below an opening, q, and projecting up vertically over the blocks and preventing their falling outward, being held in position vertically by latches t, each pivoted to one side of the box, and engaging with a staple, a, in the upper end of the pivoted leg 8.

When it is desired to remove the rectangular frame and roller the legs are unlatched and turned down and the blocks removed, when the frame carrying the roller and the sliding blocks can readily be removed and cleansed, 85 and the butter-receptacle also cleansed.

I am aware that a frame carrying a roller and provided with a straight rod having its ends resting in slots in the sides of a box and provided with a transverse rod or handle, by 0 means of which the frame can be reciprocat ed in the box to work butter, has heretofore been employed, and I therefore lay no claim, broadly, to such invention, my invention being confined to the details of construction set forth 9 5 in the claims.

What Iclaim as my invention is-- 1. In abutter-worker, the combination, with 3. In a butter-worker, the combination, with the box A, provided with slots b, having grooves c in their lower faces and openings q q, of the blocks 6, having tenons d, blocks 0' 1, frame 0', carrying the roller k, pivoted legs 88, and latches t, substantially as described, and for the pur' pose set forth.

ELVEARO STOUT.

Vitnesses S. H. OGDEN, F. A. SMITH. 

